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I said Daikan Park yesterday. It is Daikin Park. Sorry, folks. _____ I found this interesting in the Trib: The Texas General Land Office is offering President-elect Donald Trump a 1,400-acre Starr County ranch as a site to build detention centers for his promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, according to a letter the office sent him…
Read MoreDaikin Park
Well, that was some news yesterday from The Yard. It came as a surprise to me. Even though Minute Maid Park is now Daikin Park, it will still be The Yard for Commentary. Minute Maid stepped up after the collapse of Enron over 20 years ago and never let us down. They were a great…
Read MoreHello, Daikin
NEWS FLASH FROM THE CHRON, THIS IS CONFIRMED: The Astros scheduled a major announcement for Monday morning, but one intrepid social media user may have beaten the franchise to the punch. According to what looks to be a leaked photo of inside Minute Maid Park, shared Sunday evening on X by user @DinoLord05, the Astros home ballpark is…
Read MoreDeportees
I have always thought these are haunting lyrics: Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria; You won’t have your names when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be “deportees” The lyrics are from the Woody Guthrie tune “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee).” Here is…
Read MoreAstrodome Response
Thanksgiving Day is two weeks from today. _____ As I speculated a few weeks ago, this morning, Craig Melvin was named Co-Host of “Today” following the departure of Hoda Kotb. Craig will officially take his seat by Savannah Guthrie on January 13, 2025. Congratulations to Craig. _____ I mentioned a few days ago about the…
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We will know later this morning who will be the U.S. Senate Majority Leader for 2025. We will also know if MAGA world will get its picked named. You know, the Sen. Rick Scott fella from Florida. Cancun Cruz won’t be backing his colleague from his own state, Sen. John Cornyn. Cancun is backing Sen.…
Read MorePhase 10
We have a Texas legislative session starting in January. We will find out who will be the Texas House Speaker. Looks like we will have a school voucher program. I wonder what that will look like. We don’t have much on the election front next year if you are an H-Town voter. Three HCC trustee…
Read MoreRoof Open
Commentary is staying away from the talking heads these days. I am not interested in the blame game. _____ The following was on the front page of yesterday’s Chron: Despite growing up in a liberal Mexican American household in Houston’s Denver Harbor neighborhood, Tessie Kempenski hasn’t supported a Democrat in a presidential election since Jimmy…
Read MoreDenial at HISD
Breaking news! The Chair of the Texas Democratic Party announced his resignation this morning, effective next March of 2025. He needs to step down immediately. _____ The HISD Superintendent is in big time denial. See this from the Chron: Houston ISD’s state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles said he does not feel that the historic failure of the $4.4 billion…
Read MoreAftermath
I was on the road yesterday. See the featured photo. Mostly listening to the Christmas tunes. Occasionally, I would tune into MSNBC. I didn’t get to see Vice President Kamala Harris concede. I just saw excerpts last night. On a related note, candidates – winner and losers – need to pick up their signs in…
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